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Editorial
Editorial is a recurring research topic on Health Canon. This hub collects related explainers and protocols, newest first, each with evidence grades and practical decision frameworks.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Prevention: Food, Water, Travel, and Household Hygiene
Prevention is exposure control—safe water, food hygiene, travel counseling, handwashing—not annual “parasite cleanses.”
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Environmental Health
Parasite Diagnostics: O&P Microscopy, Antigen Tests, and PCR
Stool O&P, antigen EIAs, and multiplex PCR have different sensitivity profiles—match method to clinical pretest probability.
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Nutrition
Organic Foods Sex Axes: Why Pregnancy and ART Change the Priority Stack
More produce still wins; organic’s highest-value window is exposure reduction in pregnancy and ART.
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Nutrition
Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen: Useful Budget Tool or Overstated Hazard List?
Residue rankings can triage organic spend—but they are not proof that conventional Dirty Dozen produce is illegal or toxic at residue doses.
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Environmental Health
Mold and Damp Buildings Sex Axes: Pregnancy, Occupation, and Shared Remediation
Pregnancy and some occupational settings change mold risk communication; remediation hierarchy remains source control for everyone.
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Environmental Health
Microplastics Sex Axes: Semen, Placenta, and Shared Exposure Uncertainty
Microplastics appear in semen and placenta reports; dose metrics remain uncertain—sex-axis writing pairs findings with measurement humility.
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Metabolic Health
Insulin Resistance Sex Axes: Visceral Fat, PCOS, Menopause, and Shared Care
Men more often present visceral-fat IR patterns; women face PCOS and menopause transitions—shared SOC remains diet, weight, exercise, meds.
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Hormones & Genes
Fragrance and Endocrine Disruptors: Sex-Axis Synthesis for Men and Women
Women’s higher PCP exposure elevates some phthalate metabolites; male reproductive endpoints and female puberty/reproductive literature both matter.
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Men's Health
Fragrance, Phthalates, Male Testosterone and Sperm: Evidence Map
DEP/MEP from fragranced products join broader phthalate male reproductive literature—robust for some congeners, slight for others.
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Environmental Health
Fluoride Removal Technologies Compared: RO, Bone Char, Alumina, and Distillation
Activated carbon pitchers generally do not remove fluoride well; RO, distillation, and specialized media are the real options.
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Environmental Health
Fluoride Neurodevelopment and IQ: Mapping Contested Evidence Without Slogans
High natural fluoride and some epidemiologic IQ associations fuel debate; community fluoridation levels and confounding require careful grading.
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Environmental Health
Community Water Fluoridation Cost-Effectiveness: Caries Prevention Economics
At recommended levels, community fluoridation remains among the most cost-effective population dental interventions studied.
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Fitness
Fitness Sex Axes: Shared Training Laws for Adults (and What Still Differs)
Progressive overload, hard sets, protein, sleep, and energy availability are shared; pregnancy and AAS confounds are not.
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Environmental Health
EMF Sex Axes: Fertility, Pregnancy, and Shared Thermal Limits
Male fertility literature on RF/ELF is a research priority with heterogeneous findings; pregnancy content emphasizes standard device use and heat avoidance myths.
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Environmental Health
FCC U.S. RF Exposure Limits Explained: What They Cover and What They Don’t
FCC limits are thermal-based exposure standards for RF devices—not a certificate that every biological hypothesis is false or true.
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Fitness
Concurrent Conditioning and Strength for Men: Managing Interference
Endurance plus lifting can coexist; interference is dose- and sequencing-dependent, not a reason to abandon either for health.
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Men's Health
Birth Control Hormones in Water and Male Fertility Claims: Dose Reality Check
Trace EE2 and related estrogens in waterways feminize fish at ecological doses; human drinking-water doses are orders of magnitude below contraceptive pills.
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Environmental Health
Human Exposure to Waterborne Estrogens vs Contraceptive Pill Dose
Comparing environmental ng/L intakes to microgram-milligram pharmaceutical doses is the core literacy skill for this topic.
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Metabolic Health
Allergy and Inflammation Sex Axes: Puberty, Pregnancy, Autoimmunity, and Shared Markers
Allergy and autoimmunity show sex skews across the life course; hs-CRP remains a CV marker—not an allergy diagnostic for either sex.
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